Monthly Archives: February 2011

Attention Conservation Notice: Upbeat review of the latest Australian private eye novel by veteran writer Peter Corris. “Cliff Hardy” has been around so long that Peter Corris has had to change Cliff’s past. In the earliest books, published in the … Continue reading →

Peter Weir was, sadly, too in love with all his scenes in “The Way Back” to take the pruning shears to the extraneous stuff. And so this story (word used advisedly) of people walking from Siberia to India to escape … Continue reading →

Saw “Goering’s Last Stand” yesterday – a one man show set the night before Hermann Goering is to be hanged after his Nuremberg trial. It was fine, nothing particularly wrong with either script or performance or staging. It made me … Continue reading →

Having not checked my facts, I have now directed my ire at the right target (the ABC) via their Online Complaints Form Christchurch Earthquake coverage intrusive and insensitive Dear Sir/Madam, I wish to complain in the strongest possible terms about … Continue reading →

It’s an old (2006) story, but this piece from the New York Times by a woman who used the techniques used to create performing seals/dolphins/elephants on her loveable but e’er-so-slighty-irritating husband is a laff riot. What Shamu taught me about … Continue reading →

Hmm, every so often I use this blog to propound distinctions (possibly hair-splitting ones) that might be the teensy-weensiest bit self-serving/self-exculpating. A while back it was “arrogant is better than smug-discuss” – the former being ok because it was upfront … Continue reading →

This is why the Tinterwebs is such a brilliant invention. Cos you set up a blog, and you have a great bunch of people reading (and that includes you very occasional commenters, and heck, you lurkers too). And, just when … Continue reading →